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【科学60秒】环境太嘈杂，吃东西没味道

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A noisy restaurant can distract you from your dinner conversation. But all that clatter may also ___1___ the taste of your food, making it more bland. That's according to a study in the journal Food Quality and Preference.
Researchers recruited 48 college students, and ___2___ headphones playing either loud white noise, soft white noise, or nothing at all. Then the participants closed their eyes and chomped on snack foods like Pringles and cookies.
Turns out the students listening to blaring static rated the chips as less salty and the cookies as less sweet—even though ___3___.
Previous studies have shown that sound can interfere with how the brain processes smell; the researchers say the same could be true for taste. Or, loud noise could simply ___4___.
But it's not all bad news for loud restaurants. In a second study, students rated crunchy foods as crunchier ___5___ loud white noise—perhaps because it tuned them into the sound of their food. The researchers say this study may explain why airline food ain't earning any Michelin stars. Me, I think there's a little more to it than the engine noise.